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In order to boost Frank’s public profile for his potential presidential run, Claire hires a publicist, who books a joint interview for Claire and Frank.
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I’m not sure what he’s supposed to be doing, and it’s a shame that the show’s most extraneous-seeming character is black, because it makes him feel extremely token. Oh, and Remy Denton from last season is still around for some reason. that this show has painted, but I’m willing to roll with it and see how it plays out.) (I’m not convinced that her style of appealing to people’s consciences instead of negotiating or bribing them would really work in the D.C. Luckily for Frank, Jackie Sharp, the new Whip, employs more idealistic tactics rather than simply ruthlessly pragmatic ones, and winds up bailing him out. It’s refreshing to see someone who is completely immune to Frank’s folksy charm and sees him as the power-hungry viper that he is. No matter what Frank tries, what angles he attempts to exploit, up to and including offering funding for Alzheimer’s research for Blythe’s dying wife, Blythe sees right through him and refuses to budge. Episode 4 then picks up with Frank trying to get the bill through the House of Representatives, which he actually nearly fails at, despite an anthrax scare putting him in lockdown with his chief opposition, Representative Donald Blythe. It’s not unlike watching a playground squabble being enacted by erudite men in suits. (Correct me if I’m wrong please you should all know by now that the politics aspect of the show is SO not what interests me.)Įpisode 3 is about Frank’s battle to get the bill through the Senate, which he does in quite hilarious fashion, with both sides invoking various bush league (which in this context have nothing to do with the Presidents Bush) technicalities while trying to block and pass the bill. So his current project is a bill touted in the President’s State of the Union address, which (I think) wants to raise the retirement age in order to help pay for entitlements like Medicare. And anyone who wants to run for president needs more name recognition than that. He is still attempting to earn the President’s confidence, and at the same time, he’s trying to make a public name for himself, since it turns out that while he is well-known in political circles, he is a complete unknown outside of them. The main storyline in these episodes of course belongs to Frank. Hopefully this storyline picks up soon or gets dropped. Thus ensues some preposterous uses of technology and Lucas being way too trusting to even be alive, let alone be a journalist. Princess Buttercup, how far you have come.įirst, the other storylines, starting with the weakest one - Lucas the journalist attempting to find evidence against Frank Underwood using the ~magic internet~, or “Deep Web.” (I called it the “Dark Web” in my last review my apologies.) I don’t quite get all the details of what’s going on here, and I may have spaced out a couple of times because I was bored and am a bad reviewer, but the gist of it is that Lucas thinks he’s following a lead but really he’s being caught in a sting operation contrived by the FBI, because Frank’s lackey, Doug, told an FBI friend of his that this journalist was a threat to national security or something. I mean, it’s not quite Syria or Rwanda, but still, she should win awards. If Robin Wright doesn’t win an Emmy for her performance in Episode 4 alone, there will be no words to express the injustice.